Sow Hatred, You Will Reap Violence

The main fruit of hatred is violence because it is the logical consequence. Hate is like an uncontrollable appetite, which never seems to be sated.

She is made of anger, resentment and always finds a reason to revive. Without a doubt, it is one of the passions that enslaves the human being the most.

It is popularly said that: “he who sows, reaps”. In general, this saying is given a positive meaning. But in reality, this assumption applies to the positive as well as the negative.

That is, if you sow love you will reap love, but if you sow hate you will surely reap hatred, or violence, which is worse.

Hatred is multiplying rapidly

When someone assaults someone else, for whatever reason, it generates in that person a mixture of anger and grief: a wound that is difficult to heal, depending on the level of the offense received and depending on the history of assault that is in his heart.

Of course, the longer and more negative the history, the greater and deeper the wounds encountered.

Some people tend to remember bad times rather than good times, and mistakes rather than emotional successes.

From aggression to hate, there is only one step. A chain of attacks generates the conditions for the emergence of hatred and settles in the heart.

The bond that arises from this disturbing feeling may be stronger than that generated by love. What follows is an exponential growth in assaults, as there will always be debt owing.

Nothing, or almost nothing, justifies violence

Violence never brings anything good. Usually cowardice, ignorance, or both are born.

It is behavior that denigrates and hurts the human condition, ethically and socially.

Violence breeds even more violence, and its consequences are almost always the same: hatred, resentment and a pronounced taste for revenge.

If we like, we give rise to an almost endless vicious circle, vain and obtuse, as in the myth of Sisyphus.

However, and although there are many occasions when violence is understandable and accepted as a self-defense, serious doubts remain about its validity and effectiveness.

It should always be a means of last resort, in cases where circumstances do not offer any other way out.

From hatred to violence 

Violence is not just physical or verbal assault.

There are deeply violent gestures, which do not need words, such as when we denigrate someone else with just a look or when we are complicit in an injustice, out of pure comfort, because to denounce may bring us problems.

However, even if we hide it or disguise this type of violence, the effects it brings are always palpable.

It’s a chain of resentments and echoes to the throbbing wound. A dramatic circle is then formed in which people are closely linked by an unhealthy feeling.

Almost everyone who uses violence claims that they have a right to it.

If we examine this hatred that lasts for years, this violence that lasts for centuries, we will always find that each of the parties involved thinks that their attacks are nothing more than a fully justified act of defense.

They want to avoid being harmed and therefore start to hurt first. They want to be respected and therefore they do everything to terrorize the other, with the illusion that they are succeeding.

They want there to be peace and they try to achieve it by silencing those who think differently or who sing at night.

Then, if they receive an assault in return, they ratify the validity of their own assaults.

Why when we lie, for example, do we plan everything so well and almost always achieve our goal?

And why when we speak the truth do we find ourselves facing so many obstacles, rejections and inconveniences?

Breaking the vicious circle of hate and violence

Forgiveness frees. Peace is the sine qua non of happiness. But neither forgiving nor achieving peace are automatic things.

They demand a profound process which must begin with the recognition of one’s own mistakes and flaws.

The world needs strong and courageous people, who are not afraid to take a step back to avoid conflict, who are able to remain silent, to wait for the other to calm down, to start a productive dialogue, and who seek to understand the other before judging, condemning, and even punishing him.

Maybe what we need are people who dare, who take risks and who are determined to break “bad habits”.